Category: Vivisection

While we are still reconciling everything that has transpired over the past several years, it is clear today that NIO Florida (now Eleventh Hour for Animals) has had a considerable impact on UF’s ability to rape taxpayers and quietly get rich off the blood and screams of their nonhuman victims. And rather than engage any issue in which there is exists a decided public interest to procure facts, they chose to divert attention from themselves entirely. Rather, they embarked on a dedicated campaign of police intimidation and harassment, subjecting activists involved in this campaign to repeated arrests and incarcerations since 2010.

On October 4, 2010, NIO published our first expose documenting the brutal brain-mapping experiments in monkeys for which Ding was being awarded $270,060 annually as the Principle Investigator conducting “biomedical engineering” experiments under NIH Project Number: R01MH079388-03. These were annuity installments that were paid out every single year totaling roughly $3,000,000 under this award.

In the summer of 2012, the University City Church of Christ in Gainseville was given the option of taking an active stand against against taxpayer-funded animal abuse or, by virtue of their silence, giving their tacit approval to UF’s unconscionable crimes against God’s creations. Their silence over the last 18 months has rendered them a legitimate target and Eleventh Hour’s initiative to Free the UF Monkeys is continuing where it left off.

Neutrality only serves the interests of the oppressor. And it essential that we engage the community. They are either defenders of the monkeys or are guilty of allowing atrocity to continue. There is no other option.

Join us on Sunday, March 16, outside the University City Church of Christ as we continue to establish a sustained presence in Gainesville.

With UF’s championship basketball team scheduled to start playing at 4 pm this afternoon, our protestors were strategically placed on four corners of an intersection with very heavy foot and motor vehicle traffic. One newspaper took some pictures and were given a flyer as they were stopped at a light and we had a chance to speak. And WUFT-TV set up cameras and gave Eleventh Hour an opportunity to speak about the monkeys for Gainesville viewers. That interview will air on Monday at 6 pm and we will post the video when it is published.

At one point, the driver of a white Range Rover engaged one of our protestors, Camille Marino. They exchanged a few words and then the driver said that he believes they should “use” monkeys because it would be “unethical” to test on children. These words are verbatim from the protocol governing some of the monkey experiments published earlier this week. So, clearly, he is referring to Roberts’ “research” where he force feeds monkeys arsenic-laced dirt to determine how

“I recently moved to Saint Augustine from Gainesville where I was a Gators fan. I decided to switch my allegiance to Flagler College Athletics because of logistics and the fact that as an animal rights activist I recently discovered that the University of Florida conducts a massive amount of very cruel and unnecessary laboratory experiments on thousands of animals, including about 250 dogs, at taxpayer expense.

I was scouting out the Flagler sports venues one day when I poked my head in the door at the Flagler College Gymnasium. I was greeted by basketball coach Bo Clark himself who gave me a schedule and invited me to the game that night. I vividly remember Bo from his playing days at the University of Central Florida where he was a

The long-tailed macaque is native to the jungles of Southeast Asia. But, unless we get him out, Calvin will never know freedom, never climb a tree, and never feel the sun warm his little body. Assigned Holocaust No. CX99, Calvin was born into captivity at the notorious Alpha Genesis on June 1, 2003 and sold into slavery at the University of Florida on February 25, 2008.

At the order of Vivisector Stephen Roberts‘ who enjoys lining his pockets with blood money, Calvin’s life has been a relentless series of being dragged from his cage with a pole and collar and strapped down helplessly into a restraint chair. At that point Roberts’ co-conspirators ram a tube down little Calvin’s throat to repeatedly forcefeed him both arsenic-laced dirt as well as heavy metals to poison him.

Moments ago, Eleventh Hour for Animals filed a second federal complaint with the USDA for violations of the Animal Welfare Act citing a culture of corruption inside the University of Florida and a companion culture of negligence that permeates their nonhuman primate experimentation program. The complaint filed by the group’s founder, Camille A. Marino, relates solely to a 6-monkey “research” study funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the shocking details of which we reported days ago. Among the documented violations: the “scientific” rationale offered by UF for the torment visited on six macaques was simply that the Fox Foundation was willing to give them the money to do so when they couldn’t find funding elsewhere; there are up to 5-month lapses where some of the monkeys were neither monitored nor was any care whatsoever recorded; and they actually LOST a monkey.

Everyone associated with this campaign has nothing but love, admiration, and sympathy for Michael J. Fox. We wanted to believe that he was unaware of the horrors he was funding inside the University of Florida. And we want nothing more than for him to be whole and well, but not at the expense of the monkeys. Eleventh Hour followed up our campaign to raise awareness about the Fox Foundation by contacting their directors last night. We now know that the Michael J. Fox Foundation understands exactly how their money is being used and they understand the consequences of their continued association with UF. This morning we received a canned email with links espousing the benefits of the various animal torture projects they are funding. So, at this point, we need to be absolutely clear that the University of Florida is about to be dragged through the courts, the media, and the court of public opinion for systemic incompetence, negligence, and failing to use available alternatives. And we have no compunction about dragging the Michael J. Fox Foundation, or any other entity that remains complicit in their crimes, along with them.

Dear Directors of the Michael J. Fox Foundation:

As you are well aware by now, our group, Eleventh Hour for Animals, has identified your foundation as the sole party funding horrendous and inexcusable experiments at the University of Florida. Personally, I grew up with Michael J. Fox and wish him only health and happiness, but not at the expense of innocent monkeys. And while I would hope that you would choose to finance alternative, scientifically-valid research, your foundation is not the target of our campaign.

We simply hope that you will sever all ties with the University of Florida immediately, before our expose on your project is released within

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